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2026 Cognizant Classic Final Payouts, Prize Money, Winnings: Nico Echavarria Wins $1,728,000

Nico Echavarria won for the third time on the PGA Tour as Shane Lowry collapsed late at PGA National.
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Nico Echavarria won for the third time on the PGA Tour.
Nico Echavarria won for the third time on the PGA Tour. | Jeff Romance / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The PGA Tour’s Florida Swing kicked off this week with its annual stop at PGA National and the Cognizant Classic, offering a $9.6 million purse with $1,728,000 to the winner.

Nico Echavarria is taking home the big check as the last man standing after a stunning collapse from Shane Lowry, who had never made back-to-back double bogeys in his PGA Tour career until 16 and 17 on Sunday when he had a three-shot lead with three to play. The Colombian, on the other hand, played a bogey-free round of 66 including a key birdie at the par-3 17th.

Here are the final payouts from the 2026 Cognizant Classic.

2026 Cognizant Classic final payouts

WIN: Nico Echavarria, 17 under: $1,728,000

T2. Shane Lowry, Taylor Moore, Austin Smotherman; 15 under: $726,400

5. Ricky Castillo, 13 under: $393,600

T6. Nicolai Hojgaard, William Mouw, Keith Mitchell; 11 under: $324,000

T9. Brooks Koepka, Rasmus Hojgaard, Matti Schmid, Joel Dahmen; 10 under: $252,000

T13. Pontus Nyholm, Max Homa, Patton Kizzire, A.J. Ewart; 9 under: $182,400

T17. Matthieu Pavon, Sudarshan Yellamarju, Chad Ramey, Kristoffer Reitan, Takumi Kunaya, Zecheng Dou; 8 under: $132,000

T24. Jordan Smith, Ryan Gerard, Mackenzie Hughes, Kevin Roy, Zach Bauchou, Adrien Dumont de Chassard, Mark Hubbard, Aaron Rai, Beau Hossler; 7 under: $73,120

T32. Haotong Li, David Ford, Daniel Berger, Kevin Streelman, Jimmy Stanger; 6 under: $54,816

T37. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Eric Cole, Steven Fisk; 5 under: $47,520

T40. Danny Walker, Max McGreevy, Hank Lebioda, Patrick Fishburn, Matt Wallace, Dan Brown, Austin Eckroat, Garrick Higgo, Ben Silverman, Rasmus Neegaard-Petersen, Lee Hodges, Thorbjorn Olesen; 4 under: $31,776

T52. Carson Young, Alex Smalley, Seamus Power, Michael Brennan; 3 under: $22,992

T56. Emiliano Grillo, Chan Kim, Adrien Saddier; 2 under: $22,176

59. Tom Kim, 1 under: $21,792

T60. Adam Schenk, Davis Thompson; Even: $21,504

62. Billy Horschel, 1 over: $21,216

T63. Jackson Suber, John Parry, Chandler Phillips; 2 over: $20,832

66. Dylan Wu, 4 over: $20,448

67. Joe Highsmith, 6 over: $20,256

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Jeff Ritter is the managing director of SI Golf. He has more than 20 years of sports media experience, and previously was the general manager at the Morning Read, where he led that business’s growth and joined SI as part of an acquisition in 2022. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade at SI and Golf Magazine, and his journalism awards include a MIN Magazine Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award for sports reporting. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

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